1969, July - Brinkley Park at Second and Market stops organized play due to too few children using the playground. A newspaper article said a sign up sheet for an upcoming bike rodeo posted there had no signatures.

1969, July 9- Frances Mallory, the last resident of Mallory-Neely house, dies at age ninety eight at her Victorian Village home.The home is willed as an exhibit first managed by the Daughters of the American Revolution then the City of Memphis

1969, July 10- Groundbreaking for One Commerce Square

1969, July (late) - After some 125 prostitution related robberies since the beginning of the year, police saturate the Beale St and Hernando Street area with about 31 officers and a police helicopter

1969, August 29 - Glenda Harden, a typist for Jackson Life Insurance, leaves her office in the Falls Building for her car parked on the cobblestones. She was found dead the next day in Riverside Park. George Howard Putt would be arrested September 11 in Midtown and convicted for her murder and of four other Memphians after a month-long killing spree that kept the city on edge

1969, September 6 - Ralph Mitchum, proprietor of The Adult Center at 10 S. Second, sentenced to one day in jail and fined $5,000 for selling obscene material.

1969, November- Article in the MEMPHIS PRESS SCIMITAR says Memphis’ bus system is one of the few self-sufficient bus systems in the country.

1970, November 10 - Ceremony at the central police building marks the first timefemale police officers were issued service revolvers. They were to be kept in their purses. "Later if you decide you want to wear them on your belt maybe we can work something out," Chief Henry Lux said to them.

1970, November 22 - First Sunday without blue laws mandating that most business must be closed on Sunday.

1970, November 28 - Last film (WUSA) shown at Lowe's State Theater located at 152 S. Main.

1970, December 6- THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL prints drawings of the proposed river front expressway that would have connected I 55 with i 40, replacing Riverside Drive. It did not happen.

1971- Japanese Gardens taken down from the roof of the 100 North Main Building

1971, January 3- Statue dedicated at Martyr’s Park to honor those who died helping yellow fever victims

1971, February- Britling Cafeteria on Union closes after some fifty years

1971, October - Tony's Fruit Stand departs from the Northeast corner of Beale and Main, a location it had occupied for 66 years.

1971, October 5 - Harrahan Bridge Theme Park Committee suggests building a theme park at the Harrahan Bridge complete with horse racing, riverboat gambling and having it patrolled by police in 1912 uniforms and wearing handlebar mustaches. It was also suggested it could be linked to Overton Square with a monorail.

1972, February- Production of the musical “Hair” at the Malco (now Orpheum) draws protests due to a nude scene. “Remember when your kids are doing it in the streets (sex), you supported it,” said protester Rev. Michael Pearl.

1972, February 3 - I-40 opened from I-240 to Second

1972, March 19 - First March of Dimes Walk-a-thon held (now March for Babies) it went from the Fairgrounds to Downtown and covered 20 miles.

1972, May- Photo in the MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR shows most area around Beale Street cleared for urban renewal

1972, June - A home at 196 Court is slated to be razed for a parking lot. It was the last of a once prosperous residential area. The home was built in 1847.

1972, June 7 - Venson Building, apartments for the Memphis Area Housing Authority, dedicated at Danny Thomas and Beale.

1972, June 15- Architect Gene Strong refers to Court Square as a "cesspool." Told the newspapers he supports ridding the park of pigeons and squirrels

1972, June 22 - Fire at Gerber's Department store at 25 N Main does $1.2 million in damage

1972, July - Antebellum home at Georgia and South 5th razed. It was the former Brinkley Female College, but perhaps best known as the place where the ghost of Lizzie Davidson appeared in a pink moldy dress in 1871.

1972, June 30 - Hotel King Cotton closes. Current site of the Morgan Keegan building

1972, October 6 - Post Office at 555 S. Third opens at the former site of The Union Station

1973, July- Article says 13 buildings on Beale St. are to be condemned. The city said they had not been maintained for fifteen years. 320-324 Beale, city inspectors said, had the roof cave into an auditorium that was full of water.

1973, August 17- Hernando DeSoto Bridge opens

1973, October 26- Memphis Planning Action Committee suggests Mud Island be used for a river museum

1974- Timpani at 35-49 Union remodeled for condos, possibly the first of a trend.

1974- Park built on the North end of Mud Island. It was 1975 before a paved road was built to reach it.

1974, January- Sheraton sells Peabody to James “Jimmy” Lane

1974, January 6 - First event at the Cook Convention Center, a convention of the Cotton States Fashion Exhibitors.

1974, February- Goodwill Building at 94 N 2nd razed

1974, March 10- First rock concert at the Cook Convention Center when Yes played. Concert goers complained about the acoustics.

1974, April 9 - Article and photos show the 83-year-old Clayborn Temple in serious disrepair . It was an epicenter for the civil rights marches six years earlier

1974, May - First use of the name "Memphis in May International Festival." The month-long celebration included The Danny Thomas Memphis Golf Classic, a performance by the New York Metropolitan Opera, The Cotton Carnival, Saint Jude Shower of Stars and the Memphis Music Awards.

1975, June 20- Muhammad Ali Theater, first black owned movie theater to open in Tennessee in 30 years, opens on Beale

1975, July- The Toma Drummond report suggests a pyramid arena to be built downtown. The drawing of the plan looked a lot like the Great America Pyramid opened in 1991, but the proposed design was for a location at what is now the Southbluffs neighborhood.

1975, August 1 - Peabody purchased by Jack Belz

1975, August 28 - Ceremony at Main and McCall (now Peabody Place Ave) of the first bricks laid in Mid America Mall

1975, Labor Day- First WLOK Stone Soul Picnic

1975, October - Fred P. Gattas department store announced it will close its store at 387 S. Main

1975, November - Fire station 8 opens on Mississippi Blvd closing the old station 8 on Mississippi and Crump and Station 3 at Linden and S. 3rd.

1975, November 21 - St Jude dedicates its 7-story tower.

1976 - Second Street bridge crossing the Wolf River replaced. It was washed away by a flood in 1935

1976, January 1 - Position of Shelby County Commissioner abolished when Roy Nixon sworn in as first Shelby County Mayor

1976, February 27 - Theatrical production of the play "Hot l Baltimore" held for three weeks in the abandoned Hotel King Cotton

1976, April - Sister Elizabeth Bonia becomes first director of development of the Co De North neighborhood which was bounded by Bethel, Looney, Woodlawn and North Seventh

1976, April 17-22- The Freedom Train stops in Memphis near the present site of the Mud Island parking lot. It contained exhibits on American history for the US Bicentennial.

1976, April 30 - Memphis receives national attention when a jury finds 12 people and 4 companies guilty for distribution of the film "Deep Throat" in federal court in Memphis.

1976, July - First Memphis Music Heritage Festival. It would continue to 1983. In 1992 the Center for Southern Folklore would change the name of the Mid South Music Heritage Festival to the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival - no connection with the 1976-1983 incarnation.

1976, July- Plans for a Beale Street Mall like the one on Main Street placed in limbo.. Apparently not revisited.

1976, September 26 - Front Street Deli opens at Union and Front

1976, October 23 - Plan for retail and residential development on the south side of Beale at Wagner to be called Beale Street landing

1976, November 2- Movies stop running at The Malco (now The Orpheum). Last movies were “House of 1000 Pleasures” and “The 4 of Us.”

1976-November- Joni Mitchell releases “Fury Sings the Blues” referencing her visit with Fury Lewis on Mosby Avenue and the deteriorating condition of Beale Street. Lewis’ reaction to the song, “She shouldn't have used my name in no way, form or faction with out consultin’ me ’bout it first,” he said to ROLLING STONE.

1976, December- the Yule Parade returns to Memphis after a seven year hiatus

1976, December 16- Memphis Development Foundation christens riverfront program at Beale and Wagner

1981, February 28- Prayer service held at city hall asking God to intervene to keep the bus system from closing down.

1981, May 12 - Memphis Police lieutenant Clarence Cox found shot to death on Lauderdale, halfway between Exchange and Alabama. An escaped prisoner was later convicted.for his murder and that of a Jackson, Tennessee priest

1981, June 29- Sneak a Peak Tour gave Memphians a look at Mud Island park under construction. The highlight of the day was a race between The Delta Queen and The Mississippi Queen

1981, October 6 - Downtown Residence and Merchant Association holds their first meeting at Blues Alley

1981, Oct 23- First escape from the new city jail at the Criminal Justice Center

1981, October 27 - Archaeological dig begins at the Magevney House, the oldest residence in the city

1981, October 30 - After a deaf-mute woman was raped on the Mid America (now Main Street) Mall, MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR reporter Shelia Peace writes a front page editorial condemning the daily harassment of women walking up the mall.

1981, December 10- Ad in newspaper for the complete liquidation of Lowenstein's merchandise, including the downtown store. The sign at 99 N Main was removed May 15, 1982.

1982- 81 Monroe remodeled

1982- Cole’s Directory lists two businesses remaining in The Exchange Building

1982, January 13 - 4 alarm fire damages the Dermon Building at 46 North 3rd.

1982, February - Marmalade's Restaurant and live music venue opens near 2nd and G E Patterson. The area was largely abandoned

1982, February 4-5 - Gunman holds three hostages for thirty four hours at St. Jude Hospital before being killed by police. His son had died at the hospital of leukemia and he was demanding the local media publish and broadcast his theories on what caused his son's cancer.

1982 February 5 - The Robert and Annie McGowan buy the building at 418 S. Main as a residence, beginning what the South Main Association calls "the South Main renaissance."

1982, February 6 - Barry Tower, a Housing and Urban Development residence, opens at 255 North Lauderdale

1982, April - Fire Damages the Madison Hotel (not the current one- a smaller hotel located at the north end of AutoZone Park) and Tristate Hotel at 400 S. Main. Arson was suspected in both fires. In other fire news that month, fire destroyed a home built in 1904 at 301 S Lauderdale. Newspapers pointed out it was the 12th fire of a historic structure in the area since 1979.

1982, April 3 - Ambassador Hotel at Main and Vance closes. It opened in 1926. From December of 1988 to March of 1989 it reopened.

1982, May- Nov. - Sterick Building gets its brown and gold paint job

1982, May 22 - First Outdoors Inc canoe and kayak race held at Mud Island. It is currently the largest canoe and kayak event in the area.

1982, June 7- Graceland opens for tours, bringing people from all over the world to the city

1982, July 3 - Mud Island park and museum opens

1982, July 8- Construction starts on 200 Wagner Place (now Waterford Plaza) , one of the largest residential developments downtown in years.

July, 1982 - City Councilman Michael Hooks complains the Confederate battle flag flying at Mud Island is offensive. The flag is replaced by the "stars and bars" the official flag of the Confederacy.

1982, August 14 & 15 - Midsouth Folklife Festival held at Mud Island. It was the first festival produced by the Center for Southern Folklore.

1982, October- First resident of Riverbluff coop moves in

1982, October 1 - After the resignation of Mayor Wyeth Chandler to become a judge, Councilman J. O. Paterson becomes Memphis' first black mayor.

1982, October 21 - Wallace Madewell sworn in as interim mayor

1982, November - Gene Carlisle opens The Emporium, a 54,000-square-foot mall at Beale and Wagner. It will close December, 1984

1982, December 21 - Richard Hackett sworn in as mayor

1982, December 25- Orpheum closed for $5 million renovation

1982, December - MEMPHIS MAGAZINE moves into its offices on Tennessee Street

1983- Jefferson Davis Park remodeled, starting a series of improvements to the public promenade

1983- Artist Louise Dunavant releases her first print "Spirit of Beale." She would release dozens more celebrating the sights of Memphis and the riverfront.

1983, March - The Downtown Neighborhood Association creates the Roses and Radishes awards. Roses went to businesses the association said were promoting downtown and wilted radishes were those detracting. First rose recipient- Walgreen's at Main and Madison. The first radishes went to an Adult Movie Theater at 230 Union.

1983, March 12 - The King's Heartbreak Hotel, a rock and roll themed restaurant, opens at 633 Monroe. It closed later that year.

1983, April 19 - First run of the River City Choo Choo, a train that rode the streets of downtown.

1983, May- Memphis Police bring back horse patrols to downtown. The last ones were in 1948.

1983, May 11- despite a recently enacted anti-topless ordinance in the city, a nude scene was permitted in the opera “Macbeth” at Dixon-Myers Hall. Some in the audience protested the double standard by removing their tops.

1983, September 7- Construction starts on $43.5 Million Holiday Inn - Crowne Plaza Convention Center Hotel. It is now the Sheraton

1983, October 31- Last issue of the evening paper, MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR, published from 495 Union.

1983, November 1 - Jefferson Square Restaurant and the site of the first Piggly Wiggly Supermarket burns at 79 Jefferson. The owner will open The North End later that year.

1983, November 9 - After $500,000 in renovations the Clayborn Temple reopens as the Calyborn Ball Temple

1983, November 24 - $6.5 million taken in Memphis' largest armed robbery at Wells Fargo at 277 Monroe. Four people were convicted almost a year later.

1983, December- First Memphis Express Marathon. Ran from Racquet Club in East Memphis to downtown and back. The last race was in 1985. Other Marathons would follow that included downtown.

1983, December 7- North End (now Westy’s) opens near Abraham’s Deli, making the neglected Pinch District a destination

1983, December 21 - After being a part of Memphis since 1939, the Maid of Cotton competition holds its last Memphis pageant before moving to Dallas. Valerie Rhea Bendall was crowned at the auditorium. The last Maid was crowned in Dallas, Texas in December, 1992

1984- Cotton Exchange Building remodeled

1984- Brinkley (former Lowenstein's) remodeled

1984- Falls Building renovated

1984, January 7 - Grand reopening of the 56-year-old Orpheum as a performing arts venue

1984, January 16 - Belz family announces plans for the Peabody Place Development

1984, April 30- Hotel King Cotton imploded to make way for Morgan Keegan Tower, starting the building of some of downtown’s first new office space in eleven years, according to THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL..

1984, May 5- 2,500-3,500 people show up at Tom Lee Park to try to break the record for the world’s largest aerobics class. The current record is over 48,000 and was set in the Philippines.

1984, May 13- Groundbreaking for One Memphis Place

1984, June 2 - Carl and Jean Boenish jump (with parachutes) from the top of the 430-foot-tall 100 North Main Building as a kickoff for the Cotton Carnival Parade. Carl would die five weeks later in a jump from a mountain in Norway.

1984, June 28 - First Tennessee Heritage Gallery opens in the bank lobby of their Downtown headquarters

1985, Jan 5- Bill Cosby performs at the Orpheum and mentions visiting the Mid America Mall. “I expected to find a Neimen Marcus or maybe a Sax 5th Avenue. But hey, you people are the only city in the country with a mall for the poor and needy,” he said to the audience.

1986, Feb 6- St. Jude hospital votes to stay in Memphis rather than move to Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.

1986, March 4 - C&I Bank at 200 Madison announces it will merge with Boatman's Bank of Saint Louis, Missouri. It would take the name Boatman's Bank

1986, March 15- Radisson ( Now the Doubletree) opens at 185 Union integrating a new building with the old Hotel Tennessee (built in 1927). Cost $25 million.

1986, April - City Council votes to fund $600,000 for re landscaping and improving court square. The project took about six months

1986, May- Construction starts on Church Park on Beale Street

1986, May 5 - After Memphis tried to get the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to move to the city, the museum announced it will open ... in Cleveland, Ohio

1986, May 25- Memphians link hands in the “Hands Across America” event stretching from New York NY to Long Beach CA.

1986, Summer- Memphis Police Museum opens on Beale

1986, September 5- The lighting of the Hernando Desoto bridge celebrated with a party

1986, November - Remodeling of 378 South Main becomes the first project using $600,000 of county money spent to revitalize the South Main historic district. The first South Main Street Fest was also held that month

1986, December 11 - Time capsule buried in Court Square for excavation in 2036 to commemorate Tennessee Homecoming 1986. It was a year-long celebration of Tennessee culture.

1987- Parking Can Be Fun Garage opens on Union

1987- 88 Monroe remodeled

1987- The original St. Jude Hospital star-shaped building razed

1987- The South End opens at South Front and GE Patterson. It closed in 1995.

1987, February 25 - Memphis Fire Lieutenant Bobby Blackley killed in a wall collapse at the Design-Spec Seating Company at 338 Hernando Street

1987, April- First Africa in April festival

1987, April 15 to August 31 - Exhibit of Ramesses the Great begins a series of changing exhibits that will later be called The Wonders Series.

1987, May- “Ascent of the Blues,” a $250,000 sculpture built south of Morgan Keegan ( now Raymond James) Tower. Two years later, THE MEMPHIS FLYER lists this as one of Memphis’ top ten eyesores and on May 30, 1990, the structure collapsed.

1987, May 17- The Memphis Belle, the famous WWII B17, gets a new home on Mud Island

1989, February 16- 1st issue of THE MEMPHIS FLYER published from offices on Tennessee Street

1989, June 4 - Mother Teresa arrives to dedicate a Sisters of Charity shelter at 7th and Keel.

1989, June 30 - The movie "Great Balls of Fire" released showing the life of Jerry Lee Lewis and portraying late 1950's Memphis. It was filmed the previous Fall and Winter.

1989, July 20 - First WEVL Blues on the Bluff concert held at the ground of the Ornamental Metal Museum.

1989, July 20 - Memphis Flyer article discusses South Main still a hot area for prostitution and that rooms were available there at $2 per night

1989, July 22- Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band play the open area of Mud Island which had been turned into a sandy beach.

1989, September - Joseph Goodman and Son Jewelers announces it will close within the month. It had been part of Downtown since 1862.

1989, September 7- Rhodes Jennings Building, Central Station, the Showboat Buses and Assent of The Blues Sculpture listed as four of Memphis’ biggest eyesores by the MEMPHIS FLYER

1989,September 15 and 16 - The Big Dig ... groundbreaking of the Great American Pyramid begins construction

1989, December- Plan considered to change the name of Mud Island to Racapolis and turn it into a rock and roll and Ancient Egyptian theme park. It did not happen.

1989, December - Mayor Hackett proposes the city spend less effort on housing the poor in housing projects and more on getting them into houses and apartments throughout the city. This would later lead to turning Lauderdale Courts into apartments.

1989, December 26 - Belz Company announces the beginning of the construction of Peabody Place development, with the beginnings of a parking garage at 3rd and Peabody Place.

1990- Candy Factory at 262 Wagner remodeled

1990, January- The movie “Mystery Train” filmed in the South Main Historic District released across the country. It portrayed the area as empty and abandoned but with its own lovable charisma.

1990, April 1- Census shows 7,160 people living in downtown tracts of 1, 22, 41, 42, 43 and 44.

1990, April- Public station WKNO’s “Action Auction” takes bids for a home on Mud Island’s Harbor Town development. No one bid above the minimum bid.

1990, May 30- Henry Turley begins purchasing land for what will become the South Bluffs Community

1990, June 18- Goldsmith’s downtown closes

1990, July 20 - WEVL's first "Blues on the Bluff" concert held at the National Ornamental Metal Museum

1990, July 26- Danny and Jeanne Richardson purchase house at 860 Riverpark Dr. They become the first homeowners on Mud Island.

1990, August 1- Lansky’s on Beale closes

1990, August 2 - South Main residents complain that prostitutes have returned to the area after a two year absence.

1994, April- Senator Joe Cooper and Councilman Myron Lowery suggested putting a measure on the August ballot that would give or lease part of Mud Island to an American Indian tribe so casinos can open on the island. Didn’t happen.

2001, June 15 - Peabody Place Mall opens giving Memphis, among other things, downtown’s first movie theater since 1977

2001, July- Residents relocated from Hurt Village and Lauderdale Courts for creation of part of Uptown Memphis

2001, August 2 - Article in THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL says Chism Trail at 544 Peyton, the largest grocery in Downtown, had closed.

2001, August 13- Article in THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL states the Clayborn Ball Temple is now closed.

2001, October- Ross De Alessi Lighting Design presents a report for “Light It Up Memphis” a program to illuminate public buildings downtown

2001, Oct. 9 - The Memphis Grizzlies, Memphis' NBA team, play their first game at Pyramid

2001, December 20 - Contract approved for the new basketball arena (later named the FedEx Forum). Among other things it contained a clause stating no events at the Pyramid arena could compete with events at the FedEx Forum.

2002 July 18- Emerge Memphis, Memphis’ first business incubator, opens at GE Patterson and Tennessee

2002, September 28- Dedication of the expansion of The Civil Rights Museum. The original section focused on the civil rights movement but this segment dealt with the assassination.

2002, October- Demolition begins on the old Hurt Village and Lauderdale Courts housing project and remodeling begins on Lauderdale Courts. The name Uptown Memphis and new logo are unveiled

2002, October 16 - New basketball arena to be named The FedEx Forum

2002 November 26- Yellow Rose Cafe, the last business in the Lincoln America Building ( now Court Square Center) closes.

2003- Friends For Our Riverfront formed

2003- Blue Monkey opens at Front and GE Paterson

2003, January 25- Grand Opening of Cannon Performing Arts Center

2003, March- Memphis Bell moved from Mud Island to Millington for restoration. It would later be sent for permanent dispaly in Dayton, Ohio.

2003, April 30- May 2 - The Memphis Manifesto, a meeting of creative professionals, is held at the Plaza Club at Toyota Center Plaza. It's goal was to make Memphis more of a draw to for the creative community

2003, May 16 - Barbecue Contest evacuated due to a tornado warning.

2003, July 22 - A storm with straight-line winds wreck millions of dollars in damage on almost all areas of Memphis. Locals nicknamed it "Hurricane Elvis."

2003, August- Students return to St. Patrick’s School after a fifty year hiatus.

2003, September 16- Elvis Presley’s Memphis at Second and Beale closes.

2003, September 18- Urban Land Institute releases report on Memphis Riverfront Master Plan that includes creating a land bridge from Downtown to Mud Island

2006, October 6 - Early morning fires destroy First United Methodist Church, The Court Square Annex and damage the Lincoln America Tower. Over two hundred firefighters were involved.

2006, October 9 - Tower Records, the largest store in Peabody Place Mall, announces it will be closing

2006, October 29 - Fishermen find a manatee swimming in the harbor between Mud Island and Downtown. The manatee was gone by the time rescuers from Sea World in Florida came to its rescue. It was later found dead.

2006, November 30 - Mayor Willie Herenton and Joe Frazier hold a boxing match at the Peabody to benefit the Shelby County Drug Court.

2007 - Cielo Restaurant at 679 Adams becomes Mollie Fontaine's Lounge under the same owners. The building had been there since 1886.

2007, February 3 - Bob Seger holds a concert at The Pyramid. It was the last concert at the venue.

2007, April 17 - Westin Hotel opens at South Second and George W Lee

2007, May 25 - Downtown's first "Zombie Walk" where visitors dressed as zombies walked through the streets of downtown

2007, June 22 - Stax Record's 50th anniversary concert held at the Orpheum.

2007, June 25 - Memphis marketing executive Greg Ericson of the Ericson Group presents Mayor Herenton with plans for an indoor amusement park at The Pyramid

2007, November - Ground breaks at the construction site of the 16 story, $67 million, Horizon Condominiums

2008, February 23 - In perhaps one of the most anticipated sporting events in Memphis history, The FedEx Forum hosted number two ranked University of Tennessee Volunteers basketball team against number 1 ranked University of Memphis. The UT won, 66 to 62.

2008, November 4 - City Council approves the changing of the name of Auction Avenue to A. W. Willis Avenue

2009, January - Jillian's, a large bar/restaurant/entertainment complex at Peabody Place Mall, closes

2009, January 5 - After five years as a giant hole in the ground, construction begins on Barbaro Alley Flats at Main and Gayoso

2009, February 27 - The Terra (Technologically Environmentally Responsible Residential Architecture) Home dedicated at North Main and Greenlaw. It was designed to be the most energy and environmentally efficient home in the area.

2009, March - Artist Jeff Zimmerman and Rhodes College began work on a giant mural near the YMCA and Autozone Park

2009, March - Primetime Sports Bar opens in Peabody Place in the space vacated by Jillian's

2009, May 1- "$5 Cover", a Memphis-based TV series created by local director Craig Brewer, premiers on MTV

2009, June 25 - Mayor Willie Herenton announces he will resign July 10.

2009, July - The 80 percent-complete Horizon Condominiums are sold to Capitol One for $17.4 million.

2009, July 30 - Mayor Willie Herenton leaves and is replaced by Interim Mayor Myron Lowery,. He was the longest serving mayor in Memphis history

2009, September 10 - Poplar Tunes at 308 Poplar closes. It had been there since 1946.

2014, April 4 - The National Civil Rights Museum reopens after extensive remodeling

2014, April 24 - June 1 - The old Tennessee Brewery opens as a performing arts venue in an event called Tennessee Brewery Untapped. The brewery closed in the 1950's, later to be used as a scrap metal facility which closed in 1981.

2014, May 1 - The Royal Family visits downtown as Princes William and Harold attend a wedding party at The Rendezvous.

2014, June 1 - Last of tenants vacate the 100 North Main Building to begin a $100 million transformation into a hotel and apartments.

2014, June 6 - Riverside Drive reopens after Memphis in May as a two lane road with the other lanes used for bicycles. After a year it was returned to four lanes

2104, June 10 - Trolley service suspended by MATA after two separate trolleys caught fire. Trolley service began in 1993.

2014, June 28 - Grand opening celebration held marking the completion of the last work on Beale Street Landing

2014, July 10 - D Canale purchases building at 301 S. Front to be used as a distillery and public tasting room.

2014, July- T J Mulligans closes at 362 N Main. It had been opened for over 20 years

2014, August 5- The Daily News announces the Donnelley J Hill State Office Building at 170 North Main has been vacated by the state for space at One Commerce Square

2014, September 25 - "Tear down party" of a former Burger King at 151 Madison Ave. to be replaced by a small park with actual demolition later that week. The restaurant had been closed for over ten years and regarded as an eyesore.

2014, November - Residents begin moving into The Press Box Lofts at 195 Madison. The building had been empty since the early 1990's

2104, December - Crye-Leike offices at 179 Madison vacated for conversion into a boutique hotel

2015, January- $6.5 million in improvements to Auto-Zone Park begins shortly after New Years.

2015, March 27 - Developer Archie Willis announces plans for a $52 Million development at the train station including, possibly, a grocery store, parking garage and movie theater.

2105, April 1 - After 79 years of being owned by E.W. Scripps, The Commercial Appeal becomes part of The Journal Media Group. The lighthouse logo which was a fixture on the masthead since 1983 disappeared with the April 1 issue.

2015, May 23 - The last Memphis in May Sunset Symphony held. It was an annual event since 1977.

2015, May 27 - B. B. King's funeral procession heads down Beale Street for his burial in Indianola, Mississippi. He moved to Memphis in 1946.

2015, June 26 - At the Shelby Couty Courthouse, Bradley Foreman and Chris Brower become the first same sex couple issued a marriage license in the county

2015, July 8 - Just two months since its opening, The Bass Pro Shop receives its 1 millionth visitor

2015, August 13 - The Land Use Control Board approves changing the name of a two mile stretch of 3rd Street to BB King Street

2015, September 3 - Chisca on Main apartments at 272 S Main accepts first tenants in the Plaza ( the smaller southern segment) while the main hotel was still being remodeled

2015, September 23 - Halloran Performing Arts Center opens.

2016, February 1 - Lyfe Kitchen restaurant opens at 272 S. Main replacing the old Chisca Hotel sign with its own

2016, February 5 - Memphis Police move from their old station at the Central Train Station to a new one at 444 North Main

2016, May 28 - Memphis In May ends with the first 901 Fest

2016, June 3- After being empty for about 5 1/2 years, Peabody Place Mall was announced to be the new location of Service Master, INC. Construction began a few days later

2016, June 4 - A man shoots two customers at Westy's restaurant, runs to Bass Pro Shop, shoots a third and then while being pursued by police hits and kills an officer at Beale and BB King. One of the men shot died 13 months later.

2016, July 10 - Protesters block traffic on the Hernando DeSoto bridge and are peacefully removed after city officials agree to meet with leaders to discuss their grievances. Everything from start to finish was broadcast live.

2016, October 22- The Big River Crossing opens. It is a pedestrian/ bicycle bridge along the Harahan Bridge connecting Tennessee with Arkansas.

2018, January 11 - Steeple placed on the reconstruction of First United Methodist Church. The original came down in a October, 2006 fire.

2018, February 19 - first Service Master employees move into their new headquarters, the former Peabody Place Mall.

From sources including the archives of THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS BUSINESS JOURNAL, DOWNTOWN DEVELOPER, MEMPHIS DOWNTOWNER, THE MEMPHIS FLYER, MEMPHIS MAGAZINE, THE MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR. The books, MEMPHIS: AN ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE by Eugene J. Johnson and Robert D. Russell Jr., ASK VANCE, by Vance Lauderdale. www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net,www.memphispolice.com.,www.firemuseum.com, Highgroundnews.com, The files of the Memphis Room at the Memphis Shelby County Public Library and Information Center and Ned R McWherter Library at the University of Memphis. Internet Movie Database.